E - Type Mini Biography

Bo Martin Erik "E-Type" Eriksson is a musician who was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1965. E-Type's breakthrough came in 1994 with the collaboration with the producers from Cheiron (Denniz PoP, Max Martin, and Amadin) on his debut album Made In Sweden. A single from this album, Set The World On Fire reached gold status in Sweden, #1 on the Swedish dance chart, #2 on the Swedish sale chart, and #4 in Israel. Eventually four other singles were released from the album: the ballad Do You Always (Have To Be Alone) and Russian Lullaby (co-written by Jonas Berggren from Ace of Base). The album itself was released in November 1994 and made it up to #2 on the album-chart. Over 100,000 copies were sold in Sweden and the album was listed for 26 weeks.

During 1996, E-Type and the producer-team spent their time working on a second album The Explorer, which was released in Sweden on the 23rd of October. The album sold more than 20,000 copies. He recorded the official song, Campione 2000 for Euro 2000.


In 2001, E-Type released his new single Life in November 12. The forthcoming album release, entitled Euro IV Ever, was postponed until the end of 2001. Finally released in November, most of the tracks feature the voice of Na Na as female vocalist. An album release party was held on the 25th of November.

Max Martin, Rami and E-type produced the album Loud Pipes Save Lives in 2004, and released it on the 24th of March. At the beginning of April, Paradise reached #11 in Finland and entered the Finnish Dance chart at position #28.

On May 14, 2007, he released a new single called True Believer. There was also a new album in 2007, Eurotopia.

In the spring of 2008, he appeared in Melodifestivalen 2008 and performed the song Line of Fire together with the rock band The Poodles. They advanced to a second chance heat, which was held in Kiruna on March 8 where they lost to Sibel.

The music of E-type followed the typical eurodance formula of synthesizer music built up to a dance floor crescendo, accompanied by his own voice, and a chorus sung by a Nana Hedin. Nana provided vocals for more than half of all E-type songs. Much of E-type's success in the 1990s was built on Hedin's on-stage stand-in, dancer Dilnarin "Dee" Demirbag. Dee mimed to Nana Hedin's voice.

Dee left the band in 2001 to pursue a solo career. However, Dee got back together with E-type in December 2006 for a concert in Russia. She is still touring with the band occasionally.Nana Hedin's voice was last heard with E-type in the song Paradise in 2004.